H.C., the woman who faces a permanent prison sentence that can be reviewed at the request of the Prosecutor's Office for allegedly suffocating her newborn daughter in Vícar (Almería) and then burying the body, asked a neighbor for a hoe when she had already given birth , supposedly to bury the body.
This has been indicated before the popular jury chaired by Judge Jesús Miguel Hernández Columna, and the owner of the hoe on which H.C.'s DNA appeared, and which he supposedly used to bury her, has stated that she asked for it to "plant a vine." ” on March 8, 2020.
He has assured that “everyone” knew that H.C. She was pregnant and, in response to questions from prosecutor Teresa Prieto, she added that the same day she lent it to him she went to pick it up in person at the defendant's house.
The lawyer Manuel Blánquez, who is prosecuting the private prosecution, asked him if he knew how many months the accused was pregnant, to which he responded no, and specified that the accused went to look for the hoe with the vine shoot in it. a hand.
Another neighbor explained that that same Sunday H.C. He went to ask her for a branch and a hoe, although she only gave him the plant, although shortly after he saw her pass by with said tool and later he saw the previous witness pick it up.
He added that on Monday, March 9, he saw H.C. when she was talking on the street with another neighbor – whom the accused has pointed out in her statement when she assured that she assisted her in the birth – and that was then when she realized that she “did not have a belly.” .
“I asked the other neighbor if she had noticed that she didn't have a belly and I went to Encarna. Then I heard her—said neighbor—screaming, saying “where was the baby,” she declared.
It was precisely this screaming neighbor who alerted H.C.'s ex-partner. and father of the dead girl, whom according to the latter's testimony, he accompanied the Poniente University Hospital in El Ejido (Almería) to look for the newborn after, supposedly, the accused stated that he had left her there.
"Was not. “They said they were going to look all over Spain but it wasn't in any province,” said this man, who added that he went with the neighbor who yelled at H.C. to report to the Civil Guard, and that they later called him to tell him that they had found a bag with the baby's placenta.
Although throughout the hearing the neighbor who screamed at H.C. has become a “fundamental” piece, as all parties have pointed out, she has not appeared this Wednesday. The Local Police of Vícar have been asked to look for her, so far without result, although other people have stated that they have not seen her in a long time and that even her son did not go to class yesterday.
Yes, the woman who accompanied her to the irrigation pond in which the placenta appeared did so, and she has assured that it was another neighbor who pointed out to the absent witness that she had seen H.C. throw something at the place where they found the remains.
Finally, agents of the Civil Guard have reiterated that the DNA of H.C. appeared on the hoe that was lent to her, as well as that there were mixed biological remains of the newborn and her mother in the house where she allegedly gave birth on March 7, 2020.
